Kalshi Raises $1.12B in Private Equity Offering
The raise extends a run that has Kalshi's valuation potentially doubling to $40 billion from its May mark, with around $380M still available under the same SEC notice.
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The raise extends a run that has Kalshi's valuation potentially doubling to $40 billion from its May mark, with around $380M still available under the same SEC notice.
CryptoQuant's Bull Score jumped from 30 to 80 in a single week, the strongest reading since October 2025, while short-term holders booked a record $614M in realized profits in one day.
ATLAS turns ZRO from a cross-chain governance token into a direct claim on platform revenue. 75% of post-rebate fees buy and burn ZRO, with the top rebate tier staking up to 1% of supply.
The deeper case is the debasement trade: expanding deficits and a weaker dollar support a scarce-asset thesis, while institutional flows test whether the move has outgrown its short-squeeze origins.
The $16B-to-$590B perpetual futures surge hides the actual structural question for allocators: whether the token in a wallet is a share or a synthetic claim layered on top of one.
Clearer custody guidance could give investment advisers a more defined compliance path for client-facing digital-asset services.
Kalshi's lead puts it at the center of prediction markets' expansion beyond sports, while the August surge gives event contracts a stronger adoption signal.
The move would put a major US bank closer to the on-chain dollar economy, adding institutional weight to stablecoins as payment and settlement infrastructure.
The exploration puts stablecoins at the center of a banking and payments contest over trust, compliance and distribution.
The dollar match is the headline, but the more durable signal is what's now backing it: four years of preferred-dividend coverage and a $1.59B flexible cash pool to retire converts, push STRC to par,…
The $5B+ private-wallet total makes IBIT a custody story as well as an access milestone, with Bitcoin holders moving from self-custody into institutional ETF exposure.
The ECB is selling the 2029 digital euro as a privacy upgrade over bank transfers, but civil society groups argue the safeguards rest on institutional promises, not technical enforcement.
Inflation, GDP and durable-goods data land together, putting recent ETF demand against a live test from yields and the dollar.
The 2029 horizon makes the call a long-term positioning benchmark, not a near-term trading signal, for investors assessing Bitcoin's institutional role.
Galaxy's institutional balance sheet is the differentiator: no collateral rehypothecation, an 8.99% APR, and staked SOL acceptance land on the gaps Ledn, Coinbase, and Nexo have left open.
The move puts euro liquidity, reserve backing and compliance at the center of fintech-led stablecoin adoption.
Bitwise's framing is that the model comes to the user. For a $9B crypto asset manager, ATPs are a structural test of whether tokenized stocks can actually behave as DeFi collateral at scale.
Passage would make Congress the main route to clearer US crypto rules, while failure would leave CFTC and SEC action as the fallback Armstrong endorses.
The partnership links planned stablecoin pilots to Shinhan’s bank and card businesses as South Korea advances a wider framework for stablecoins, VASP licensing and crypto ETFs.
The 1.19% real gain is a narrow reversal after two straight weeks of negative per-share yield, but $5.74M in new annualized preferred dividends keeps widening the senior claim stack.